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Hawera Star, Volume L, 7 April 1931, Page 9

In a late number of the moll-known French illustrated meekly, “LMI lustra lion,” there is an excellent account o! the ‘ ‘tremblemont do term” that wipec ,onb Napier. There is a good view oi the town from Scinde Hill, and tmc maps of the locality. The information in the article is obviously drawn from reliable sources, and there is not ; single mistake in the place names—even the Maori ones—which are s< often a source of danger to the foreigner. The article concludes-: “Tt b curious to recall that the great French seismologist, the late Count de Montossus de Ballore, drew attention more than twenty years ago to the dangerous situation of Napier from a seismological point of view, though lie never believed such a disaster as the present one would occur.”